Word: wonder
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Northeastern appears to be in an especially strong position for today's race with Jim Dietz as the stroke. Dietz has achieved the reputation of rowing's newest wonder boy. He is the official world youth champion in single sculls, and won a gold medal for the United States in double sculls at the Pan-Am games in Winnepeg last summer...
North Viet Nam's reply came through a most unorthodox channel: a Tass dispatch from Hanoi saying that Washington's reluctance to accept Pnompenh "cannot but cause wonder, because the U.S. has repeatedly expressed willingness to send its representatives to any point on the globe." Tass added that the North Vietnamese would nonetheless be willing to consider Warsaw as an alternative. Hours later, Hanoi confirmed its choice of the Polish capital in a formal note delivered to U.S. Ambassador William Sullivan in Vientiane, where there have been as many as nine exchanges between American and North Vietnamese diplomats...
Some have hailed it as the eighth wonder of the world, others as the rival to Angkor Wat. That may be slightly hyperbolic, but everyone who has made the pilgrimage to Indonesia's temple of Borobudur, just outside Jogjakarta, ranks the soaring pyramidal shrine as one of the world's most magnificent examples of Buddhist architecture. Virtually untouched by tourism, the massive monument rises symmetrically from the serene green plains of central Java...
...language is wretched but was it meant to be? Whatever we decide Miss Jones has the best of it. Her self-deflation, ponderous and abetted by a bit of typological cuteness, is nonetheless successful, and we are left to wonder whether it was diction or sexuality or both which fretted her. such antics, like self-criticism in general or romanticism in general lead only to an adolescent recognition of self--which is the beginning not the end of investigations...
Nevertheless, 2001: A Space Odyssey cannot be easily judged if only because of its dazzling technical perfection. To be able to see beyond that may take a few years. When we have grown used to beautiful strange machines, and the wonder of Kubrick's special effects wears off by duplication in other Hollywood films, then we can probe confidently beyond 2001's initial fascination and decide what kind of a film it really...